Nina Laurie is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at the University of Newcastle, UK. She works collaboratively with colleagues at CESU, San Simón University, Bolivia. Together with Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe she is author of Multi-ethnic Transnationalism: Indigenous Development in the Andes (forthcoming). She is also co-author of Geographies of ‘New’ Femininities? (1999).Liz Bondi is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Edinburgh. She is founding editor of the journal Gender, Place and Culture, the co-author of Subjectivities, Knowledges and Feminist Geographies (2002) and co-editor of Emotional Geographies (2005).

"This is a compelling, timely and thought-provoking collection. It brings into contact a range of phenomena often considered in isolation, and subjects them to sustained critical-geographical exploration. The materials covered here cross worlds and scales - the Global South and the Global North; from the psychotherapist's couch to ethnodevelopment in Ecuador - and thereby reveal the entangled spaces, roles and subjectivities of professionals and activists under neoliberalism. It is essential reading for any critical scholar concerned about the extending and mutating reach of neoliberalism."Chris Philo, Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow "If there is any lingering doubt that geographers need to think about how the local, the state, and the global are interconnected, it should be dispelled in this provocative and compelling collection, a fresh approach to the everywhere but elusive concept of neoliberalism. Challenging us to think about the broad ramifications for professionalism and local activism, these authors are determined to make a difference to the real lives of people engaged in working the spaces of neoliberalism as they re-write subjectivity, local knowlege, sexuality, democracy and political agency. We can definitely add another notch to our understanding of the world." Audrey Kobayashi, Professor of Geography, Queen's University, Ontario

• IntroductionLiz Bondi and Nina Laurie 11 After Neoliberalism? Community Activism and Local Partnerships in Aotearoa New ZealandWendy Larner and David Craig 92 Authority and Expertise: The Professionalisation of International Development and the Ordering of DissentUma Kothari 323 Dropping Out or Signing Up? The Professionalisation of Youth TravelKate Simpson 544 Ethnodevelopment: Social Movements, Creating Experts and Professionalising Indigenous Knowledge in EcuadorNina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe 775 Working the Spaces of Neoliberal Subjectivity: Psychotherapeutic Technologies, Professionalisation and CounsellingLiz Bondi 1046 Desiring Sameness? The Rise of a Neoliberal Politics ofNormalisationDiane Richardson 1227 Making Space for ‘‘Neo-communitarianism’’? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UKNicholas R Fyfe 1438 Caught in the Middle: The State, NGOs, and the Limits to Grassroots Organizing Along the US–Mexico BorderRebecca Dolhinow 1649 ‘‘The Experts Taught Us All We Know’’: Professionalisation and Knowledge in Nepalese Community ForestryAndrea J Nightingale 186Commentaries10 Working the Spaces of NeoliberalismMarcus Power 20911 No Way Out? Incorporating and Restructuring the Voluntary Sector within Spaces of NeoliberalismKaty Jenkins 21612 Professional GeographiesNicholas Blomley 22213 Partners in Crime? Neoliberalism and the Production of New Political SubjectivitiesCindi Katz 227Index 236